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Synth Eastwood 'Cycles'

This is a poster I sent off this evening for the upcoming Synth Eastwood 'Cycles' show, at Filmbase in Dublin on 24th October.


It is a tribute to the 2007 Tour de France which passed through Dartford and Gravesend, and is entitled 'Fast-track' after the dubiously-titled bus link that runs between the two towns. It is based on Kraftwerk's Tour de France videos, and is composed in a similarly geometric hand-drawn type style that I have been experimenting with in a series of greetings stamps for An Post.



Whether or not the Synth Eastwood crew have any interest in the poster is another question altogether.

Stick to vinyl

I bought this little guy back from Amsterdam as a present for my girlfriend.


I found him in Outland Records on Zeedijk, a record and vinyl character shop with a small gallery of sticker and street art downstairs in the basement. He comes from the set of Wookie/Crazy Label toys made for Chinese artist Bubi Au Yeung’s children's book “Treeson & Other Stories” (我愛樹仔)



Some of the work on display was from artists who have spoken in Dublin at Candy's SweetTalk shows over the last couple of years. Jon Burgerman had some pieces on show in the Outland gallery; his SweetTalk presentation a year or two ago was one stood out for me from all of those I've gone along to.

Some of the other artists on show:
Nagi Noda
Rolito
Superdeux
Tado

Hard Rain

"July, 1969. Mark Edwards, lost on the edge of the Sahara, is rescued by a Tuareg nomad, who takes him to his people, makes a fire and produces a cassette player. Bob Dylan sings “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”. As Dylan piles image upon image, the idea comes to Edwards of illustrating each line of the song. In the years that follow, he travels to over 150 countries to photograph our headlong collision with nature. Hard Rain is the result — an unforgettable collection of photographs illustrating Dylan’s prophetic lyric."

Mark Edwards' Hard Rain project is currently on display in the Botanic Gardens. It is an incredible collection of photographs. Bob Dylan described A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall as the song he had to write before the end of the world; the feverpitch height of Cold War, nuclear crisis, paranoia. The end was nigh and Dylan had these images in his head he had to share, so he crammed them all into this song. Beauty, horror, wonder, despair. The photographer's work captures and presents the truth in so many of these words.